This past week there was an exhibit at Gallery 1313 that paid tribute to Murray McKay. Murray started modeling for college level life drawing classes in the 1990s. Between then and his passing in 2024, he had a large impact on Toronto’s art community. More than forty artists contributed their drawings or paintings of Murray to the exhibit which was simply titled “Murray”.
This exhibit was only on between 5th and 16th March (now ended)
… a CONTACT Photography post.
Gallery 1313 and Elaine Fleck Gallery are within a block of each other out in Parkdale and both were participating in this year’s festival.
The Elaine Fleck Gallery were featuring the work of one artist, Bill Hornbostel, in a retrospective show titled ‘Luminous Realism’. At Gallery 1313 I saw ‘Offshoot’, a collection of images from nine photographers. Unfortunately the latter was only on display until May 19th.
below: Hornbostel’s images are large, and shot at slightly longer exposures. Some of the photos, like this one of traffic on Bay Street south of Old city Hall, were taken in Toronto
below: ‘Offshoot’ at Gallery 1313
below: Margaret Kittel Canale, two building exteriors, orange and blue.
below: Jude Marion (two photos), industrial areas in Hamilton.
below: Lilianne Schneider with “Displaced” that looks at the abandonment and relocation of two heritage structures.
below: One of the photos by Courtney Fairweather who chose to highlight cell phone usage in today’s society.
below: Some interesting photographs by Ted Scott
below: When I first posted this, I thought these images were part of ‘Offshoot’ but I was mistaken. They are in fact part of a solo exhibit of digital photocollages by Janne Reuss (in a separate little room) titled ‘Thread(t)s and Narratives’ .
With apologies to the photographers whose work I haven’t shown (not missed on purpose): Joachim Oepkes, Ulla Djelweh, James Sutherland, and Eric Garsonnin.
The Bill Hornbostel show continues until the end of May
as I walk Toronto 